Software Engineer, Android Core Product - Norfolk, USA

Speechify; Norfolk (VA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Senior Android Engineer to enhance their popular text-to-speech app. This role involves owning major features, ensuring high-quality delivery, and shaping the future of the Android team. Ideal candidates are experienced in Kotlin and Android development. The position offers remote work flexibility and competitive salaries ranging from $140,000 to $200,000 per year, depending on experience.

Benefits

Competitive salaries

Friendly, laid-back culture

Strong asynchronous collaboration

Opportunity to make a big impact

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Familiarity with Android components.
• Experience building or contributing to an Android app.
• Strong experience with Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, and Kotlin Flow.

Responsibilities

• Own major features and deliver high-quality functionality.
• Shape the future of the Android team.
• Handle critical issues and manage feature releases.

Skills

Kotlin

Android components

Kotlin Coroutines

Kotlin Flow

Dagger 2

MVVM

Clean Architecture

Background Services

Android Animations

Jetpack Navigation

JUnit

Job description

Overview

With the growth of our Android app, being the most used text-to-speech app in the Play Store, we seek a Senior Android Engineer to support the growing user base and work on new projects to push us forward. We are a flat organization that values leadership through technical excellence, delivering results consistently and fast, strong work ethic, clear communication, and a focus on winning.

Our team is 100% distributed with no office, and includes frontend and backend engineers, AI researchers, and others from leading tech companies and academic programs. Our interview process involves several technical interviews, typically completed within one week.

What You’ll Do

• Own major features and work closely with design to deliver high-quality functionality inside the Android app
• Shape the future of our Android team
• Own, maintain, and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Participate in cross-team discussions with Product, Design, and Engineering
• Review pull requests and support teammates
• Handle critical issues and respond to unexpected challenges
• Manage feature releases and provide nightly builds for QA

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Familiarity with Android components
• Experience building or contributing to at least one Android app
• Product design intuition and user empathy
• Drive to push the boundaries of Android UI/UX
• Understanding of testing importance and approach
• Self-driven to improve the app and codebase beyond the spec
• Strong experience with Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Android Animations, Jetpack Navigation, and JUnit
• User-oriented problem solving and openness to feedback

Bonus

• Experience contributing to open source Android projects
• Experience with iOS, Web, or NodeJS

Technologies we use

• Kotlin
• Kotlin Coroutines
• Kotlin Flow
• Jetpack Navigation
• Dagger 2
• Room
• Jetpack Compose
• JUnit

What We offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can shape the company and product
• An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle
• A hands-off management approach to enable focus and high performance
• Opportunity to make a big impact in a transforming industry
• Competitive salaries, a friendly, laid-back culture, and strong asynchronous collaboration
• Opportunity to work on a life-changing product used by millions
• Products that directly support people with learning differences
• Work in the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio

Salary

United States-based salary range: 140,000–200,000 USD/year + bonus + stock, dependent on experience

How to apply

Think you’re a good fit? Tell us about yourself and why you’re interested in the role when you apply, and include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

If you know someone who would be a great fit, refer them!

EEO and Diversity

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